CCN 2028 will be hosted in North America again! We invite researchers & institutions to submit a proposal for 2028. Organizing chairs don't just host — they help shape CCN's organizational and scientific identity. Submit your proposal 👇 2026.ccneuro.org/host-ccn-pro... #CCN2028

Hey video-aficionados #VSS2026, this morning @sargechris.bsky.social presents our recent ICLR paper on benchmarking video ANNs on human EEG, suggesting an extended phase of mid-level video feature processing beyond the feed-forward sweep! (Pavilion 425) (paper here: openreview.net/pdf?id=bSsNS...)

Looking forward to this! Come and hear how you can participate!

I'm proud to say we are releasing LAION-fMRI, a densely sampled 7T fMRI dataset of natural images, with very broad stimulus sampling for testing countless hypotheses and for deeply exploring brain representations. The dataset is now available at laion-fmri.hebartlab.com What does LAION-fMRI offer? 🧵

EXCITED to travel to #VSS2026 to contribute 2 talks and 2 posters from our lab! Me and @niklasmuller.bsky.social will talk scene encoding models on Fri & Sat, @sargechris.bsky.social and @annewzonneveld.bsky.social will discuss their cool work on video models on Tue (schedule👇for exact times).

Come and see our #ICLR2026 poster on our video model-human brain alignment study, led by two stellar students from the lab!

🚨 #CCN2026 Submission Updates! 🧠 The deadline for Generative Adversarial Collaborations (GACs), Keynote+Tutorials, and Community Events has been extended until March 31st! For more information on those event types, see the CCN 2026 website.

Reminder: CCN 2026 Proceedings abstracts are due today, Feb 9, Anywhere on Earth (AOE).

🚨 #CCN2026 Proceedings submissions are open! CCN 2026 again features an 8-page Proceedings track (alongside extended abstracts). Accepted papers will appear in CCN-Proceedings (CCN‑P) with DOIs on OpenReview.

I have a PhD opening for my #VIDI BrainShorts project 📽️🧠🤖! Are you or do you know an ambitious, recent (or almost) MSc graduate with a background in NeuroAI and interest in large-scale data collection and video perception? Check out our vacancy! (deadline Feb 15). werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

🎉 Re-Align is back for its 4th edition at ICLR 2026! 📣 We invite submissions on representational alignment, spanning ML, Neuroscience, CogSci, and related fields. 📝 Tracks: Short (≤5p), Long (≤10p), Challenge (blog) ⏰ Deadline: Feb 5, 2026 for papers 🔗 representational-alignment.github.io/2026/

Check this out - yesterday I was on Dutch national television to discuss the intersection between #AI and the #brain, how we are addressing the fundamental questions there @uva.nl, and how we plan to tackle video understanding in my #NWO #VIDI project next! 🧠🤖📽️ npo.nl/start/afspel...

We are excited to announce that the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience meeting (CCN 2026) will be held at New York University from August 3–6, 2026. 2026.ccneuro.org

On the train to Brussels, towards the biannual NeuroCog meeting, whose theme this edition is “AI and the brain” neurocog.be Prepping my talk and looking forward to learning about exciting new research and immersing myself in some good discussions in the next two days!

📣 New preprint by a stellar team 🤩 I’m most excited by “phase III” in the alignment time course, which is best captured by mid-layers of temporally integrating video models! While we do not directly compare with image-EEG (yet - will do so in the #VIDI) I suspect this is unique to video vision 🎥🔥

Pleased to share that our survey "Getting aligned on representational alignment" — on representational alignment across cognitive (neuro)science and machine learning — is now published in TMLR! openreview.net/forum?id=Hiq... Kudos to @sucholutsky.bsky.social @lukasmut.bsky.social for leading this!

Honoured to receive an NWO #VIDI grant to study 'the TikTok Brain': representational alignment of brains and deep nets for #video! I'm hugely thankful to the anonymous reviewers for their enthusiasm and for the opportunity to grow and sustain my lab. Job ads coming soon! www.nwo.nl/en/news/149-...

Our exciting new preprint emphasizing the role of texture/local statistics in brain-DNN alignment (for EEG), online now!

Honored & looking forward to give this lecture tomorrow @ucl-neuroai.bsky.social!

📢 10 days left to submit to the Data on the Brain & Mind Workshop at #NeurIPS2025! 📝 Call for: • Findings (4 or 8 pages) • Tutorials If you’re submitting to ICLR or NeurIPS, consider submitting here too—and highlight how to use a cog neuro dataset in our tutorial track! 🔗 data-brain-mind.github.io

Somewhat exhausted but very happily and proudly looking back at #CCN2025 & ready to pass the torch to NEW Amsterdam for #CCN2026 🥳Please fill out the survey 👇 to give input to the organizing team led by @neurograce.bsky.social and @toddgureckis.bsky.social @NYU!

Final day of CCN 2025! 🎉 Ellie Pavlick opens with a keynote on neural compositionality, we have our last contributed talks and poster session, then Pieter Roelfsema gives the last keynote of the conference. Thread below 👇

Als zelfs een 'betrouwbaar' wetenschappelijk medium foutieve AI-gegenereerde informatie c.q. definities deelt als de waarheid. Lees vooral ook de mailwisseling met het medium onder het artikel.

I’ve had 40 birthdays so far, but this is the first one chairing a major international conference 👩‍💻! Thanks to the nearly 1000 attendees of #CCN2025 for coming to my birthday this year 😉

Lots of talks on Thursday of CCN 2025! 🎙️ David Poeppel's keynote, four contributed talk sessions, three K&T tracks, and tonight's social event. Details in thread 👇

Welcome to the second day of #CCN2025 ! 🌟Today we have Yasuo Kuniyoshi's keynote on embodiment, four parallel community events, and our GAC debate sessions. More details in the thread below 👇

Welcome to the first day of #CCN2025 ! 🧠 Today, we're starting with networking, opening remarks, and two fantastic keynotes from Nancy Kanwisher and Anna Schapiro. More details in the thread below 👇

#CCN2025, we’re ready for you!

The moment we've all been waiting for— #CCN2025 is HERE! Today we start with satellite events, and tomorrow the main conference begins in Amsterdam! We'll be sharing daily updates about each day's program, so follow the CCN account to stay in the loop. Can't wait to see everyone!

After preparing for a full year together with @neurosteven.bsky.social and all other amazing organizers of @cogcompneuro.bsky.social, #CCN2025 is finally here! While I'm proud of the entire program we put together, I'd now like to highlight my own lab's contributions, 6 posters total:

Less than 2 weeks until CCN 2025 in Amsterdam! Here's everything you need to know to prepare for the 8th Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference, August 12-15 at University of Amsterdam 🧠

The 8th Cognitive Computational Neuroscience conference is coming closer and we are looking forward to welcoming the CCN community in Amsterdam this August 12-15! Here is some additional information in preparation for this year's conference:

Een wereld vol denkers: een avond vol #psychologie, #neurowetenschap 🧠, #biologie 🪴 en #AI 🤖! Met bijdragen van @irisgroen.bsky.social, Jackie Higgins en Yaïr Pinto. Ma 22 september 🗓️ bij @sggroningen.bsky.social in het academiegebouw van @rug.nl. Kaartjes 👉 sggroningen.nl/nl/evenement... 1/2

Ik mocht bij het Oog op Morgen vertellen over een nieuw onderzoek naar de invloed van het gebruik van chatGPT op ons brein. De studie is nog erg 'preliminary', maar het is wel belangrijk dat er aandacht is voor hoe AI het leerproces en denkvermogen beïnvloedt. www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/n...

Goed advies van @laurensvhg.bsky.social www.volkskrant.nl/beter-leven/...

In these tumultuous times, still happy to report a scientific achievement: our preprint on affordance perception was just published in PNAS! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Using behavior, fMRI and deep network analyses, we report two key findings. To recapitulate (preprint 🧵lost on other place):

Interesting analogy!

NEUROCOG 2025 is taking place in Brussels Nov 17–18! The theme: AI and the Human Brain 🤖 🧠 We’re thrilled to welcome 6 amazing invited speakers: @evfedorenko.bsky.social, @nicoschuck.bsky.social, @summerfieldlab.bsky.social, @jeffreybowers.bsky.social, @irisgroen.bsky.social & @mtoneva.bsky.social

There are 2 PhD positions in my lab in Amsterdam (collaboration with Sander Bohte, @tessamdekker.bsky.social and Ingmar Visser) on NeuroAI of developmental vision. academicpositions.nl/ad/centrum-w...

Just a few months until Cognitive Computational Neuroscience comes to Amsterdam! Check out our now-complete schedule for #CCN2025, with descriptions of each of the Generative Adversarial Collaborations (GACs), Keynotes-and-Tutorials (K&Ts), Community Events, Keynote Speakers, and social activities!

Joining us for CCN2025 in Amsterdam? Early registration discount is still available until the 23rd May! 2025.ccneuro.org/meeting-regi... Need financial support? We got travel awards & caregiver grants available: 2025.ccneuro.org/travel-awards/ 2025.ccneuro.org/caregiver-aw...

And in the same #ICLR2025 session, a paper led by @diego-gc.bsky.social proposing a cool new method using fMRI-guided image diffusion for hypothesis testing of neural representations in human visual cortex!

Hi #ICLR2025, come and see our poster “One hundred neural networks and brains watching videos” led by @sargechris.bsky.social if you’re interested in human brain-AI alignment for videos! 📽️🧠🤖

Looking forward to travel 🚅 to London to contribute to this event!

📣! CCN2025 submissions have closed with impressive results: 613 submissions. A 21% increase from last year! Thank you to everyone who contributed. Looking forward to welcoming you all to Amsterdam this summer for what promises to be our biggest conference yet! #CCN2025 #Amsterdam

A little less than 24hrs to go! ⏱️ @neurosteven.bsky.social and I are *very much* looking forward to receiving your 2-page abstract on your latest exciting findings at the intersection of cognitive science, neuroscience and AI ♟️🧠🤖 and to welcome you to Amsterdam in August! bsky.app/profile/cogc...

🗓️ **CCN25 deadline reminder**: 2-page extended abstract submissions are due this Thursday (April 10th). We recommend drafting submissions in OpenReview (openreview.net/group?id=ccn...) well in advance. OpenReview drafts remain editable until the deadline.

We are extremely excited to announce Pieter Roelfsema from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience as a keynote speaker of CCN2025! If you want to submit an extended abstract / 2-page paper to CCN: the submission deadline is next Thursday (10th April). Info below!

We are extremely excited to announce Hava Siegelmann from the University of Massachusetts Amherst as a keynote speaker of CCN2025! If you want to contribute to this year’s CCN program, the March 14 deadline for special event submissions is approaching rapidly (details below!).

Register your abstract for the 8page CCN Proceedings today!